The Army Can Control Your Dreams

This might be one of the crazier things I've read in awhile. Take a little Manchurian Candidate and sprinkle in some Inception and you got what the Army is calling Power Dreaming. The Army is working on a technique to stop nightmares that affect 52% of combat veterans who also suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Doctors are trying to train the soldiers brain to go to a happy place, if you will. When the solider starts having nightmares the brain would trigger images of family and other calming things to lower heart rates and put the body back into a resting state. The Army hopes that with Power Dreaming the solider can watch a series of videos on a laptop and "home training 3-D goggles" and then those images in the videos would become embedded neurological triggers. This would fall into the study of biofeedback, which has been used on PTSD victims for years.
As of right now the whole study is just in the planning stages. The Army awarded a $500,000 contract to a consulting firm last week.
"The model is to develop imagery that is both customized by the [soldier] and neurologically ‘distracting' to stimulate the development of a clinical relaxation response," according to contract documents, "the solider will learn to activate the parasympathetic dream scenarios when aroused by traumatic memories by using 3D goggles, coping successfully with intrusive nightmares,"
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